Erin Donnelly, Associate Director of Visual and Media Arts, is also an independent curator. At the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she manages the Visual and Media Arts Department which offers artists

Join us for new media public programs, part of Motion Studies, a multimedia exhibition and dialogue series exploring movement and performance from intimate actions to public gestures.

Augmented Space: Media Art for an Urban Environment

Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 7-9pm

What is electronically augmented space? What are its cultural applications? What are its poetics and aesthetics? Digital artist and architect Marek Walczak, sound artist Ben Rubin, and computer scientist Steven Feiner discuss an old conceptual problem in a new context: how to combine, juxtapose, and overlay various layers of data onto physical space. From large scale interactive buildings at the new World Trade Center that track and reflect pedestrian movement on the sidewalk, to digital soundscapes that gurgle up from underneath Battery Park City's new Teardrop Park, Rubin, Walcazk and Feiner discuss the challenges of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing new media for an urban environment.

Motion Studies is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.Subway & Bus Directions2/3/4/5 to Wall StreetJ/M/Z to Broad StreetN/R to Rector StreetM6 to Broadway and Wall Street

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Motion StudiesA multimedia exhibition exploring movement and performance from intimate actions to public gestures is on view from September 2 through Dec 12, 2003. Works range from a commentary on the flow of human traffic in urban space to meditations on the choreography of the everyday. Included are drawings, sculpture, video, and 3D animation projections Janet Cohen, Eduardo Difarnecio, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser, Marie-Christine Katz, kimsooja, Pia Lindman, and William Pope.L. Gallery Hours are M-F 11-5 pm: Opening Reception to meet the artists is Oct 2, 6-8 pm.

Marking the end of the first session of our innovative site-oriented residency program located high above Manhattan in the historic Woolworth Building, 15 artists open their studios and share their work made during the six month residency. Join us for a free and informal event to meet the arists-in-residence.

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LMCC is grateful for support from The Witkoff Group, New York Mercantile Exchange Charitable Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Booth Ferris Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and to American Express and the many individuals around the country who participated in the charity auction of photographs by Annie Leibovitz featured in the recent Rewarding Lives exhibition.